A 48-year-old man was arrested by Virginia Beach police after being accused of threatening to abduct a baby.

Just after 9:50 a.m. Monday, a man, identified by police as Bryan R. Lowe, 48, walked up to another man in the 2200 block of Locksley Arch and started a conversation, Virginia Beach Police Department spokesman James Cason said in news release.

During that conversation, the man pulled out a handgun and threatened to take the victim’s baby in the back seat of the vehicle, police said.

The victim fled to safety, though Cason declined to give the details about how, called 911 and reported the incident and a description of the man’s vehicle to authorities, he said.

The man made the verbal threat but did not have any physical contact with the child, Cason said. The two did not know each other.

Lowe, of the 2200 block of Venice Court in Virginia Beach, was arrested after an officer saw and stopped his vehicle near Princess Anne Road and General Booth Boulevard, Cason said.

Lowe was charged with attempted abduction and use of a firearm in commission of a felony and is being held at the Virginia Beach City Jail without bond, police said.